Ever wonder how many wireless networks you are entering during your morning commute? Sure there are commercial network detectors out there and your laptop will do the trick as well, but what’s more fun than actually building your own device to discover all the networks around you? Giving Yourself a Sixth Sense for Wireless Networks […]
The “Di.Di.Di.” (which stands for Device Digital Distorition) by Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza is a custom made instrument built from 10 recording circuits taken from old toys and hacked to distort their sound. 20 touch sensors on the instrument control the sounds the piece emits so that it records its own sounds and those from […]
Betty Turbo sells a really nice variety of hand-printed greeting cards and prints–I love the pop-culture inspired ones especially, like the funny LOST card above, and the print below featuring Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Anthony Stewart Head (aka “Giles”). Betty Turbo Prints and Cards
Byron Lahey and other researchers at Arizona State University are working on this all terrain iRobot modification. He writes: Robot Create robots are easily programmable and expandable in their functionality, but can only travel on a very limited varieties of terrain (carpet, hard flat floors and other typical interior domestic surfaces). As part of the […]
This just in! Sublime Stitching hunted down the very best glow-in-the-dark thread on the market and are now offering it for sale in this attractive palette of 5 colors for only $10. Snap some up and you can make fun lights-out projects like Anjaley’s Daydream/Nightmare piece, blogged earlier this month.
Alex took his original idea of the programmable LED and made it even cooler. He took 25 of his LED’s and put them together on 1 board. Each LED reacts to the others. Here is how Alex describes it: The rule behind this is very simple. All fireflies have nearly the same frequency for their […]
“Is that a jet engine in your pocket, or…” Oh, nevermind. The accidental pocket jet engine…
